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Perte de Fède

Entrance to be opened near the sink of a small stream, leading through a passage and a 51-metre pit to a bottom at -70 m.

Belvis 120m 70m

Entrance to be opened near the sink of a small stream, leading through a passage and a 51-metre pit to a bottom at -70 m.

Characteristics

  • Type: Sink
  • Municipality: Belvis
  • Unit: Pays de Sault
  • Length: 120 meters
  • Depth: 70 meters
  • Record updated:

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  1. Perte de Fède

    42.846341, 2.101715
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Description

Morphology

Entrance to be opened, just downstream of the sink of a small stream; view for a few metres.

You descend between blocks to find yourself in a small passage also choked with blocks. 10 metres further on, you reach the narrow top of a pit 51 metres deep. In three steps, you land 15 metres lower on a spacious ledge. The pit then continues, much wider, for 27 metres of height. A large collapsed stalagmitic mass precedes an R 2 that is climbed, then you continue in a fine meander. You reach a larger 5-metre step that must be rigged. Opposite, the meander continues higher up and would need to be revisited. Below the step, the meander continues for 20 metres to an R 2 on the left. The dimensions decrease and the meander turns into a crawl, current bottom at -70 m.

Speleothems

A large collapsed stalagmitic mass precedes an R 2 that is climbed.

Hydrology

Bottom of the pit at -54 with a puddle.

Other details

Work difficult to foresee because it is narrow and above all there is carbon dioxide, between 2 and 3 %, at the bottom of the hole.

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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/88458 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected] · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by Stochus (Brève description), Stochus (Description générale) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/88458 · data as of 2026